Downgrade

//ˈdaʊnˌɡɹeɪd//

"Downgrade" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The new version of the app wasn't working very well, so I had to downgrade it.

Until the bug is resolved, I advise you to downgrade your video card drivers.

Going from Starbucks to instant coffee is a massive downgrade, if you ask me.

You call that an upgrade? It's more of a downgrade, if you ask me.

Algeria saw a huge downgrade in its tourism arrivals due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

[...] dynamic braking is fitted to the 99-ton, 55 ft.-long locomotives to help control these otherwise vacuum-braked trains on the long, continuous downgrades encountered on the coastal route.

Near-synonyms: degradation, worsening, deterioration

The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.

Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton.

More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.

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We cannot afford to downgrade the lifestyles of other lesbians; we cannot afford to portray lesbians thinly as drunken and bothersome separatists who push their views on "work-within-the-movement" dykes".

Without downgrading my friends in the Building Trades, driving a nail or sawing a board is relatively simple.

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